CFHT monitoring of M67 & members from Gaia EDR3 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Dungee R.
  2. van Saders J.
  3. Gaidos E.
  4. Chun M.
  5. Garcia R.A.
  6. Magnier E.A.,Mathur S.
  7. Santos A.R.G.
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    CDS
Abstract

We present stellar rotation periods for late K- and early M-dwarf members of the 4Gyr old open cluster M67 as calibrators for gyrochronology and tests of stellar spin-down models. Using Gaia EDR3 astrometry for cluster membership and Pan-STARRS (PS1) photometry for binary identification, we build this set of rotation periods from a campaign of monitoring M67 with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope's MegaPrime wide-field imager. We identify 1807 members of M67, of which 294 are candidate single members with significant rotation period detections. Moreover, we fit a polynomial to the period versus color- derived effective temperature sequence observed in our data. We find that the rotation of very cool dwarfs can be explained by simple solid-body spin-down between 2.7 and 4Gyr. We compare this rotational sequence to the predictions of gyrochronological models and find that the best match is Skumanich-like spin-down, P_rot_{propto}t^0.62^, applied to the sequence of Ruprecht 147. This suggests that, for spectral types K7-M0 with near-solar metallicity, once a star resumes spinning down, a simple Skumanich-like relation is sufficient to describe their rotation evolution, at least through the age of M67. Additionally, for stars in the range M1-M3, our data show that spin-down must have resumed prior to the age of M67, in conflict with the predictions of the latest spin-down models.

Keywords
  1. open-star-clusters
  2. infrared-photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. broad-band-photometry
  5. proper-motions
  6. trigonometric-parallax
  7. k-stars
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2022ApJ...938..118D
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